Album of the day (#692): Suede by Suede - Music

Mother Nature's Son

Gender: Male
Age: 31

Great band, good album with some great tracks.
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Norman Bates

Gender: Male
Age: 51
Location: Paris, France

Good singles, average album. Why did all those 'britpop' (whatever that means) bands have to write slow songs to prove they could back up their singles with some 'serious' songwriting? It's so boring.

Kiki

Norman Bates wrote:

Good singles, average album. Why did all those 'britpop' (whatever that means) bands have to write slow songs to prove they could back up their singles with some 'serious' songwriting? It's so boring.

Like 'The Drowners'? That was one I have never liked

Norman Bates

Gender: Male
Age: 51
Location: Paris, France

an_outlaw wrote:

Like 'The Drowners'? That was one I have never liked

'Sleeping Pills' also falls under this category. All those average britpop bands did it! Fun first energetic singles, compiled for a first album but surrounded with slow songs with 'deep' lyrics to them.

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Norman Bates wrote:

'Sleeping Pills' also falls under this category. All those average britpop bands did it! Fun first energetic singles, compiled for a first album but surrounded with slow songs with 'deep' lyrics to them.

Britpop was, on the whole, shite. I like His'n'Hers, a few of Blur's songs. And that's, erm, about it.

Kiki

Norman Bates wrote:

'Sleeping Pills' also falls under this category. All those average britpop bands did it! Fun first energetic singles, compiled for a first album but surrounded with slow songs with 'deep' lyrics to them.

I don't like what your suggesting. I think you are making some generalizations. It's probably the word 'britpop' that I'm finding jarring (In some extreme cases I have seen it used for any 90's UK band that played an instrument PERIOD.) The other thing is that what you are describing it like a band... trope? Shall I call it trope? Like as in TV Tropes? You know, where a bunch of people in a band try to write 'deep' songs to prove they are intelligent or something. As much a cliche as a band saying they are changing direction. Those things happen all across the board.

Kiki

lethalnezzle wrote:

Britpop was, on the whole, shite. I like His'n'Hers, a few of Blur's songs. And that's, erm, about it.

I heard you diss Idlewild before Surprised

If you lumped them in the britpop bin on the basis of one or two songs, I could show you some quite fantastic stuff they did! Unless you listened to all the albums ofcourse... I'd have thought they would appeal to a Manic Street Preachers fan.

Norman Bates

Gender: Male
Age: 51
Location: Paris, France

an_outlaw wrote:

1) I don't like what your suggesting. 2) I think you are making some generalizations.

1) Oh.
2) I sure am. Can't help it, that's the way I feel about it though.

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an_outlaw wrote:

I heard you diss Idlewild before Surprised

If you lumped them in the britpop bin on the basis of one or two songs, I could show you some quite fantastic stuff they did! Unless you listened to all the albums ofcourse... I'd have thought they would appeal to a Manic Street Preachers fan.

I dunno, I've sat through an album and a half. They just sort of bore me. I think with me the Manics are probably the exception to the rule. If I listened to a bunch of 'similar' artists, I'd probably find very little I like.

Kiki

Norman Bates wrote:

1) Oh.
2) I sure am. Can't help it, that's the way I feel about it though.

If it's good enough for you, it's good enough for me
It's good enough for two, it's what I want to see Dancing

Well...

erm...

Ahh yes Suede. Yeah, Animal Nitrate is a well crafted song, I listened to that for a while once.